The Art Institute of New York City Summer Programs

Celebrate Pupil Artists 2021

New York City's talented student artists from schools throughout the city have continued to explore their world, reply to challenging times, develop their skills and limited themselves creatively. Supported past defended school leaders, inspired arts educators and nurturing family unit and friends, pupil artists pre k to 12 demonstrate their resilience and talents as well as the transformative ability of the arts. With the greatest pride, we nowadays Celebrate Educatee Artists 2021. You can visit our Citywide Arts Celebrations, cheque out the Arts Festivals past borough, and you can also see work from each of the arts at the DOE: Music, Dance, Visual Arts, Theater, and Media Arts.

"Congratulations to our talented student visual artists and performers for the exemplary piece of work they have accomplished during such a challenging yr. I would also like to extend my gratitude to their talented teachers, families, and committed school leaders for their connected support of rigorous arts programming in their schools.

I applaud the creative accomplishments of all our students beyond the metropolis and look forward to making a continuous, rigorous, inclusive arts didactics a reality for all New York City public schoolhouse students."

- Meisha Porter, Chancellor of New York Urban center Department of Instruction

Citywide Student Performances and Exhibits

Borough Arts Festivals

The Borough Arts Festivals are yr-terminate events taking identify in each borough to gloat the talents and creativity of students and their teachers through arts exhibitions and public performances. Borough Arts Directors and support staff collaborate with community superintendents and the Field Support Centers to highlight the local excellence and student achievement in the arts. These festivals engage thousands of educatee artists, their families and friends and members of the school customs.

Music

The All-City High Schoolhouse Music Program

All-Urban center High Schoolhouse Music Program invites NYCDOE public school students in grades 9-12 to receive Saturday music teaching and perform alongside peers from all five boroughs in the following citywide ensembles: Chorus, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Latin Ensemble, Marching Ring, and Orchestra.

Salute to Music

The Salute to Music Programme invites NYCDOE public school students in Grades four-eight to receive Saturday music instruction and perform alongside peers in civic-based ensembles. Concert bands are bachelor in every civic. Orchestras rehearse in the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island and choruses rehearse in Queens and Manhattan. A Citywide Jazz Ensemble welcomes students from all five boroughs. We are too proud to announce the Jump 2021 improver of Guitar Ensemble!

NYC Song of Hope Projection

TheThe NYC Stiff Project. To begin this interactive citywide songwriting and dance project, student songwriters began by crafting the song's chorus. Student dancers then choreographed a group dance for the chorus and contributed dance solos. Inspired by the dancers' work, student songwriters wrote verses, a pre-chorus, and a bridge to complete the song. Through this "dance-inspired-by-music-inspired-by-trip the light fantastic" experience, students leaned into their joy and strength and modeled determination as they created this original song and original choreography that proclaim, "Nothing is going to cease me!"

NYC Strong Project

Building on the New York Metropolis Song of Promise Project, the NYCDOE's Office of Arts & Special Projects worked in partnership with the Songwriters Hall of Fame to engage over 200 students across the city (Grades Thou-12) in The NYC Strong Project. To begin this interactive citywide songwriting and dance project, educatee songwriters began past crafting the song's chorus. Student dancers then choreographed a group dance for the chorus and contributed dance solos. Inspired by the dancers' piece of work, student songwriters wrote verses, a pre-chorus, and a bridge to complete the vocal. Through this "dance-inspired-by-music-inspired-by-dance" experience, students leaned into their joy and force and modeled conclusion as they created this original song and original choreography that proclaim, "Nothing is going to terminate me!"

Remote Music Instruction

Remote Music Education is a brusque picture show that shows the successful and inventive means in which NYCDOE music educators and their Thousand-12 students go on making music while didactics and learning remotely.

Dance

Dance Connects

Dance Connects is a virtual dance sequence that includes cursory solos choreographed and performed by K-12 dancers with the support of their NYCDOE dance teachers. Dance Connects was generously supported by Jody and John Arnhold / Arnhold Foundation.

Arnhold New Trip the light fantastic Instructor Back up

The Arnhold Foundation provides a diverseness of supports for new trip the light fantastic teachers in their start and second years of teaching in New York City public schools including the Arnhold New Dance Teacher Back up Program.

The Dance Professional person Learning Website

Hither y'all volition notice a '1 end' shop for dance educational activity including professional learning events, curriculum, resource and more than. Visit the Dance Professional Learning Website.

Remote Dance Education

During the COVID xix pandemic NYCDOE schools airtight requiring K-12 trip the light fantastic toe educators to teach remotely. Despite all the challenges students connected to participate in their trip the light fantastic classes, improving their trip the light fantastic toe technique, creating original dances and engaging in discussions near a wide variety of dance forms, trip the light fantastic artists and their work. This three min video, Remote Dance Educational activity includes excerpts of students participating in remote instruction and trip the light fantastic teachers' insights on remote dance and teaching.

Altruistic to Dance!

You can brand a donation to ensure Dance programs remain strong across NYC'south public schools, through the Fund for Public Schools past visiting www.fundforpublicschools.org/donate and entering 'Trip the light fantastic NYC' in the gift designation box.

As the non-turn a profit partner to the NYC DOE since 1982, The Fund is uniquely positioned to facilitate philanthropic support to quickly answer to emerging needs. This includes helping to ensure all students have access to a high-quality arts education, by working in partnership with the NYC DOE's Office of Arts and Special Projects. The Fund is a 501(c)(3) system which makes all donations tax-deductible.

If you lot have whatsoever questions contact info@fundforpublicschools.org.

Visual Arts

The DiverCity Lens Photography Program

This citywide visual arts programme honors middle and loftier school students' voices through their photographs and writing. Connections the 2021 catalogue also volition be posted on WeTeach along with last year'due south catalogue.

The Judiciary and the Arts

This heart and high school program supported by a 3-year grant from the Matisse Foundation, engages students with the judiciary as a borough institution. Working with judges, lawyers and research librarians in the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse, students choose to report court cases, the lives of notable judges, or courtroom compages and demonstrate what they have learned through visual arts projects. Pupil artwork is posted on the Justice for All website. After June 15th delight access pupil work related to landmark court cases. And admission artwork related judges and courthouse architectural designs.

Art History Enquiry Fellows Program

Supported by Studio Institute, the plan promotes art history scholarship for high schoolhouse seniors, connects them with Museum of Modern Art educators, shares Studio Establish resources for college-jump students, and grants awards to exemplary researchers. Information on our 2021 researcher will exist bachelor at the end of June.

Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition

Ezra Jack Keats Foundation encourages students in grades three - 12 to appoint in writer and illustrator studies, and to feel the imaginative solutions involved in creating picture books. The annual Ezra Jack Keats Bookmaking Competition produces hundreds of student-made picture books . The program will resume in the Fall of 2021. View the 2020 catalogue.

The Dedalus Foundation

The Dedalus Foundation rewards higher-leap graduating seniors from New York City public loftier schools who have shown excellence in fine arts and are furthering their studies in fine arts or art history. Portfolios selected to receive the 2021 Dedalus awards may be viewed at www.dedalusfoundation.org.

Mark Rothko Scholarships

This portfolio competition rewards exemplary portfolios of NYC public school graduating seniors.

The 2021 recipients of the Rothko awards likewise may be viewed at www.dedalusfoundation.org.

The School Art League

Since 1909, The School Art League has supported the visual arts education of New York City public high school students through programs and services that advance their cognition and skills. The Saturday Fine art Career Workshops at The One Club for Creativity and the artist- led workshops at The Society of Illustrators introduce students to career opportunities in the arts. The School Fine art League also provides scholarships and awards to graduating students, and presents historical statuary medals to sophomores, juniors, and seniors for excellence in artistic achievement. This twelvemonth the scholarships and awards will be presented during a virtual ceremony on June eleven. The School Art League expects to resume its annual ceremony at The Met in June 2022. After June 15 visit https://schoolartleague.org to view the 2021 award and scholarship recipients.

Theater

All IN(clusive) All-City Theatre Teen Ensemble

All IN(clusive) All-City Theatre Teen Ensemble is an innovative & dynamic plan for NYC high school student artists from diverse races, ethnicities, gender identities, abilities, and points of view to collaborate, compose, devise, rehearse and perform an original musical.

Arthur Miller Foundation Theater Teacher Fellows Programme

The Arthur Miller Theater Teacher Fellows Program provides pregnant mentorship, preparation, resources, and support for new theater teachers, increasing the number of New York City public school students with access to dedicated theater education.

Digital Theatre Project

Digital Theatre Project is an intersection of applied theater, new media, and social justice virtually connecting NYC students to peers effectually the world. Button-Pull Tech illustrates our student digital theater mapping work, exploring why and how we migrate.

Broadway League Theater Management Teen Diversity Intensive

Broadway League Theater Management Teen Diversity Intensive Supports the adjacent generation of various theater designers, producers, and administrators.

Remote Theater Learning showcases the innovative ways in which theater teachers continue to engage students in theater learning and production even when remote.

The Virtual NYC Theater Educator Tutorial Series

The Virtual NYC Theater Educator Tutorial Series is a series of engaging and practical tutorial videos back up in-person, composite & remote theater pedagogy and learning across diverse content, technique, instructor expertise, student abilities, and course levels. Spanning videos on mindfulness, edifice customs, producing theater virtually, lesson planning, theatrical blueprint, procedure drama, and more, teachers expand their own instructional repertoire too equally direct students to videos for asynchronous technique support.

The Virtual Teen Arts Audition Prep Site

This dynamic site of tutorial videos and coaching insights guide middle and high school student artists as they navigate the audition/portfolio process in a chosen field (Trip the light fantastic, Moving Image, Instrumental Band, Strings, Theater, Visual Arts, or Vocal Performance). The site's focus expansively supports our young artists to navigate the procedure and focus on what is in their control, with intention. First and foremost a valuable and equitable resource for many students who might not otherwise have access to audition support, this comprehensive site also provides arts educators with multiple entries to activate these resources for a truly blended and vibrant arts curriculum.

Media Arts

NYC Public Schoolhouse Picture show Festival

NYC Public Schoolhouse Film Festival This 3rd annual festival premiered 32 brusque films created by public schoolhouse students. Produced by the Mayor'due south Role of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and NYC Department of Teaching (DOE) in partnership with Magic Box Productions, students submitted short films in categories including Animation, Experimental, Short Narrative Feature, Documentary and PSA/Advocacy. This year's Festival has an added bonus, beyond the films themselves. Six student filmmakers were chosen by teachers to conduct on-photographic camera interviews with leading motion-picture show industry professionals.

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